Art Adventures: Benny Gold

I spent a recent Saturday following Travis Jensen and Benny Gold around with the old video camera. Travis was working on the reporting for a story about Benny that’s in this Sunday’s Chronicle. Benny was busting out some tricks along the Embarcadero and enjoying a classic spring San Francisco day.

After a three-hour skate session, we ended the day getting a tour of Benny’s Mission district studio. He showed us some of his latest designs for his spring line of clothing, featuring fitted hats and tee shirts. He also dug through his stacks of shoe boxes and piles of shirts and shoes to reveal some of the past projects he’s done for Huf. Maybe most notedly his Quake series that he did for the 100 year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. And one of my personal favorites, the Ray Fong shoe, a collaboration with artist Barry McGee.